Founder of Chinese Opposition Party
Could Be Hit With a Life Sentence

HANGZHOU, China -- China closed the chapter on its first opposition party Monday by trying the party's founder for "subverting state power."

Wu Yilong had organized a book-discussion group that last year grew into the Chinese Democracy Party, a well-coordinated entity that once claimed a thousand members in branches across China. The party sought legitimacy by trying to register with the government under China's murky legal...